Sequel to The Doll- From The Ashes: Book Five
With the destruction of Margaret, her coven and more importantly, the doll, Queenie was looking forward to a well earned rest but her peace was rudely shattered by a visit from a distraught Paul Goodfellow, the local vicar.
Tamar, her arch enemy, had been the victim of a vicious attack shortly after their visit to her cottage and as a result was now in a coma.
A reluctant visit to her sick bed leads Queenie and Sybil on an urgent quest to find Tamar’s library of ancient occult manuscripts.
They found the answer they were seeking within one of these texts and what the elderly sisters found made Queenie’s blood run cold.
"They stared helplessly at the woman in the bed.
‘Oh no, poor Tamar,’ groaned Queenie and clumsily took her clenched fist. ‘As much as I detested her I wouldn’t have wished her to go like this.’
At the old woman’s touch the cold rigid fingers relaxed beneath Queenie’s wrinkled hand, the stiff digets slowly uncurled one by one revealing in the palm of Tamar’s hand a small twist of paper.
‘What’s that?’ asked Sybil leaning forward.
Queenie glanced from the paper to the sleeping woman’s face then silently flattened out the thick yellowing scrap of paper; it looked like it had been torn from the corner of a page. There were a few symbols and printed words on the paper but this was not what caught Queenie’s eye. It was the sight of her own name scrawled across the corner of the scrap of paper."
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